has published a collection, The Bees Are Waiting, which was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and was named a 2013 Must–Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared widely in journals including AGNI, The Southern Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest, and her translations have been featured in Poetry Daily.

his eighth collection of poems, This Shadowy Place (St. Augustine’s Press), won the 2013 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His earlier new poems are appearing in American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, Drunken Boat, Plume, Tricycle, Raintown Review, and Buddhist Poetry Review. He is the current Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2010 – 2015). Last year, his noted Newtown memorial poem, “Solace,” was set to choral music by composer William Bolcom and performed by a 300–member choir in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut.